Honor to Us All" is a song that carries very similar concepts to the scene where the matchmaker arranges for Lindo Jong to marry Huang Taitai to where she is receiving training on how to be a good wife. In the story, Lindo is matched with Huang Taitai, a local boy from a wealthy family. After a flood destroys the house she is living in, her family decides that it is time for her to live in the household where she will eventually be with her future husband. Servants at the house teach her to cook, sew, and do several other tasks a wife should “know how to do.”
The song "Honor to Us All" talks about how a girl can honor her family “by striking a good match,” and by a girl “bearing sons.” It also has many connections to the scene. In the song, it talks about how “men want girls with good taste. It talks about how a good wife should be calm, obedient, should work fast pace, should be able to reproduce, and that they should have “a tiny waist”, which means a good wife should look appealing. In the book, they also follow many of these beliefs. They teach
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The song gives meaning to objects such as, “an apple for serenity. A pendant for balance.” And, “Beads of jade for beauty.” In the book, it says that her mother gave Lindo a necklace made from a tablet of red jade. It also gives meanings to other objects, such as the red candle itself. Both also discuss the importance of ancestors and family. The singer in the song says, “Ancestors. Hear my plea. Help me not to make a fool of me. And not to uproot my family tree. Keep my father standing tall.” In Lindo’s situation, her family is one of the only things that motivated her to keep trying so that she could not disgrace them. The Taitai household placed a great importance on their ancestors. They hung pictures, cleaned graves, and treated the words of their ancestors with the utmost importance. This is what helped Lindo to eventually escape the
Yan Zhitui states that, "women take charge of family affairs, entering into lawsuits, straightening out disagreements, and paying calls to seek favor...the government offices are filled with their fancy silks." (Differences between north and south, 111). Yet, even in the Qing dynasty women were still restricted by and expected to uphold more traditional ideals, especially in the public eye. So, in the end, through her virtue, Hsi-Liu’s two children we able to become upright. Here, there is a split between what a woman is supposed to be according to old Chinese tradition, and the realities facing women in Tancheng. The loss of her husband, and economic hardship had forced His-Liu to behave in a different way, as if she were usurping the power from the eldest son so she could teach the two boys a lesson about being good family members. While she still maintains the ideals of bearing children, and being loyal to her husband, even after he dies, out of necessity she is forced to break from Confucian ideals of being only concerned with the domestic issues. This too put her at odds with the more traditional society around her, as the villagers pitied her sons, but vilified the Hsi-Liu for being so strict with them (Woman Wang, 65). Had she remarried, she would have been looked down upon even more because she would had broken her duty to remain faithful to her deceased
He is explaining how a wife’s life is that of her husband. No matter what condition or temperament her husband comes home in, she must tend to his every need no questions asked. This is a very unfair way for women to live their lives seeing as she has hardly anything in her life that is her own.
ꀀ ꀀine a world of unequal social status. Envision a world where customs are different, whether that is through family or political standpoints. In America, in today’s day and age, every human being despite their gender is supposed to be seen as equal. In our modern world, gender equality is beginning to prevail, and men and women are looked at on the same level. However, there are still flaws in our society. Some of these flaws are exemplified through Cao Xuequin’s novel The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days, Volume 1. The Qing Dynasty, as depicted through the families in the book, portrays a life of unequal gender relations, through marriage, family matters, and education.
Both poems are set in the past, and both fathers are manual labourers, which the poets admired as a child. Both poems indicate intense change in their fathers lives, that affected the poet in a drastic way. Role reversal between father and son is evident, and a change of emotion is present. These are some of the re-occurring themes in both poems. Both poems in effect deal with the loss of a loved one; whether it be physically or mentally.
... overall themes, and the use of flashbacks. Both of the boys in these two poems reminisce on a past experience that they remember with their fathers. With both poems possessing strong sentimental tones, readers are shown how much of an impact a father can have on a child’s life. Clearly the two main characters experience very different past relationships with their fathers, but in the end they both come to realize the importance of having a father figure in their lives and how their experiences have impacted their futures.
Finally, the movie says that women, first of all, should rely on themselves and not submit to any kind of domination. They should simply support themselves by their own efforts instead of letting someone else arrange and control their lives. The movie also demonstrates how a girl possessing the virtues of honesty, patience, prudence, industry, and obedience can be rewarded with a husband and the attendant better life and higher social position.
These two songs share multiple poetic devices that make them similar but yet unique at the same time. They both have a message and even though those messages are not the same they give the listener a message related to the problems that are going on around us on a daily bases.
To give a bit of a background on Aretha Franklin, Aretha was born Memphis Tennessee on March 25, 1942. Her father, C.L. Franklin was a gospel singer, and was a pastor of a Baptist church in Detroit. Aretha lived with a singing family all her life. Her father was known as “the man with the million dollar voice”, and her mother was a well-known gospel singer as well. As a child, Aretha would sing with her two sisters, Carolyn, and Erma, but soon enough, at the age of 14 Aretha had the opportunity to produce her first recordings.
“I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents’ promise. This means nothing to you, because to you promises mean nothing” (Tan 49). In this quote, Lindo told her American-born daughter, Waverly, that she was blind to what a true promise was. Lindo proved she had a strong sense of obligation when she accepted her undesirable fate as Tyan-yu’s spouse in order to honor her family, and not put them to shame. While she did not want to live with her destined groom and his horrendous mother, Huang Taitai, where she was treated as no more than a servant, she would to honor her family. As Lindo was leaving to live with Tyan-yu and his family, her own mother said, “Obey your family. Do not disgrace us” (Tan 54); Lindo was not willing to disappoint her mother, so she did as she
In the novel the women experienced hardship in their country. China contained strict ethics under which women abided by. In the beginning of the novel Suyuan-Woo is emphasizing a better life in America for women. Tan said, “On her journey she cooed to the swan: “In America I will have a daughter just like me. But over there nobody will say her worth is measured by the loudness of her husband’s belch” (Tan 3). This shows that women in China simply were treated subpar Comparing an individuals worth to a belch simply is unfair for t...
The song that I choose to do this assignment on is Fight the Power by Public Enemy. Fight the Power was written in 1989 and quickly became a street anthem for millions of youths. It reflects with issues dealing with both the Civil Rights Movement and to remind everyone that they too have Constitutional Rights. This particular song is about empowerment but also fighting the abuse of power that is given to the law enforcement agencies. It gave citizens of the U.S a more modern outlook on the many struggles that not only the African American community is up against but the other minority groups as well. The song’s message was eventually supposed to bring people together and make the world a better place, even though some teens saw it as a way
The Fray's hit song, 'How To Save a Life,' tells a story of a mentor, also a friend, who is trying to 'save a life' of a troubled youth. The story starts off with the teenager and this friend sitting down to have a talk about what is wrong in the teen?s life. The second line reads, 'he walks, you say sit down it's just a talk,' this showing anger and fear of what might be brought up in conversation, so he tries to run away from the problem. Although neither individual wants to have the talk, they both respect each other enough to be polite, 'He smiles politely back at you/
...ith Jing Mei and her mother, it is compounded by the fact that there are dual nationalities involved as well. Not only did the mother’s good intentions bring about failure and disappointment from Jing Mei, but rooted in her mother’s culture was the belief that children are to be obedient and give respect to their elders. "Only two kinds of daughters.....those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!" (Tan1) is the comment made by her mother when Jing Mei refuses to continue with piano lessons. In the end, this story shows that not only is the mother-daughter relationship intricately complex but is made even more so with cultural and generational differences added to the mix.
It is guaranteed To thumb shut your eyes at the end And dissolve of sorrow.” ” and it seems to be metaphorically saying that women are there for men to marry and they will be there to mourn their husband’s deaths. Women are supposed to be there for their men all the time, even after death. To add to this thought, line four in the fourth stanza to the last line in the fifth stanza says, “I notice you are stark naked. How about this suit-- Black and stiff, but not a bad fir. Will you marry it? It is waterproof, shatterproof, proof Against fire and bombs through the roof. Believe me, they’ll bury you in it.” In this section, the speaker offers the applicant a suit, which i’m assuming adds on to the marriage topic. Metaphorically saying that a man is naked until marriage and the suit represents the marriage. The speaker seems to be selling the idea of marriage as if it 's a cell phone, saying that it is waterproof, shatterproof, etc, even the line “Believe me, they’ll bury you in it” seems like it 's a lifetime